“Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.” EssentialsOrdinaryStructureBritishBonesSentencesNoble Author:Winston Churchill
“There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.” OrdinaryHarmonyNobleToneTranquilConsoling Author:Paul Gauguin
“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.” MindUseCausesEffectsObjectsExpressionOrdinaryPaintWorthyNoblePhasesSublime Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.” WayFactsHappensEventsProduceOrdinaryNobleImpression Author:Roberto Rossellini
“What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.” SelfPurposeCausesLossCommonGriefVisionStruggleEventsTheoryGoes OnOrdinaryJewNobleSelf WorthGrievingAbstractHolocaustGesturesGhettoSense Of SelfOrdinary LifePrecious ThingsOrdinarinessCommon ThingsNoble CausesWarsaw Author:Irena Klepfisz
“A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.” FirstsLife IsCoursesPleasureViewsTheoryOughtBedOrdinaryNobleDamnKitchenSentimentsTestedDetachedOrdinary Life Author:Charles Simic
“Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless” MeanSimpleOrdinaryNobleMeaninglessHeroicVulgar Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.” MenFeelingsDiesPowerfulGriefCenturyFoolOrdinaryNobleEncountersExileProceduresNineteenth CenturyHumiliateGenuineness Book:The Red and the Black Source: The Red and the Black
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes” PeopleIfsWellsTwoLyingNextCommonRaceImagineMinutesHeroHonorEatingMassOrdinaryShotsMy FriendsNobleTragicHeroismPaleClayOrdinary PeopleCountingPenniesBreedingTriumphantJust LiveOne Minute Book:Legend of lovers Source: Legend of lovers